Category: Architecture

The Architect's Handbook of Marble, Granite, and Stone - (3 vol. - Complete)

By: Enrico Corbella, Lucio Calenzani,

Price: $260.00

Publisher: New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold : 1990

Seller ID: 5595

Condition: Very Good

3 volumes complete in original slipcase. Pictorial paper boards for first two volumes; third volume is also pictorial board, though in a 2-ring binder. Vol. 1: Technical Guide; Vol. 2: Overview of the Italian Stone Industry; Vol. 3: Color Sample Book. Copiously illustrated with diagrams and color photography. Foxing to first and last couple pages to vol. 3, not effecting the color samples. Previous owner's name to first free page of vol. 1, otherwise no other previous owners' names or other markings. Vol. 1: 165 pp.; Vol. 2: 189 pp.; Vol. 3: xv, 155 pp. 9 x 11 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches.Please expect ...
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Image for Anvers, Liege, Namur et le Hainaut: Monuments d'Architecture et de Sculpture, dessines d'apres nature et lithographies en plusieurs teintes par F. Stroobant, accompagnes de notices historiques et archeologiques par F. Stappaerts Monuments d'Architecture et de Sculpture en Belgique

Anvers, Liege, Namur et le Hainaut: Monuments d'Architecture et de Sculpture, dessines d'apres nature et lithographies en plusieurs teintes par F. Stroobant, accompagnes de notices historiques et archeologiques par F. Stappaerts Monuments d'Architecture et de Sculpture en Belgique

By: F. Stappaerts

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Brussels, Charles Muquardt : 1857

Seller ID: 5554

Condition: Very Good

[40] pages, 30 leaves of plates ; 42 cm. half black calf to marbled boards. Loss at spine with rubbing to tips, peripheral foxing throughout. Volume II of II. ; colored lithographs; Folio: 12 x 16.5 inches. First Edition.
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La Patriarcale Basilica Lateranense (Vol. 1 & 2) A. Kingsley Porter copy

By: Filippo Gerardi

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Rome, Agostino Valentini : 1832-34

Seller ID: 2830

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Half vellum over marbled boards. Particulars in gilt on red morocco labels to spine. Stains to title page. Posthumous bequeathal bookplate from A. Kingsley Porter to Harvard College to front pastedown. A noted art historian and medievalist at Harvard, Porter was the subject of scandal regarding his sexuality which is speculated by some to be the reason behind his inexplicable disappearance from his castle in Ireland in 1933. Additional postage for overseas shipping. ; Vol. 1 & 2; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 82; 90 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Florida Architecture and Allied Arts

By: Florida Architecture and Allied Arts

Price: $640.00

Publisher: Miami, The Miami Visitor Publishing Co., Inc. : N.D.

Seller ID: 3242

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Scarce. Black paper wraps. Photograph and title printed in silver to front cover. Front fly made of silver paper. Organized by architect featuring photographs, renderings and floorplans of commercial and residential projects located in South Florida including Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Ft. Lauderdale and Palm Beach; Hobe Sound and Winter Park circa mid/late 30's. Last third of book consists of advertisements for architects, contractors, designers, landscapers and building materials and manufacturers. A nice clean, crisp copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4...
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Eques Io Bapt Piranesius venetus architectus

By: Francesco Piranesi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Giovanni Battista or Giambattista]

Price: $500.00

Publisher: : 1779

Seller ID: 6640

Francesco's tribute to his father who had died the year before. Tear to left side (see image) and generally wavy appearance.
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Frank Lloyd Wright [Schumacher] A Collection of Wallcoverings, Companion Fabrics and Borders

By: Frank Lloyd Wright [Schumacher]

Price: $1,600.00

Publisher: : 1986

Seller ID: 5148

Condition: Very Good

A very large (13.5 x 17.5 inches) folio with silkscreened samples of wallcoverings, borders and fabrics designed by Wright and produced by Schumacher. 73 wallcovering samples, 17 border samples, and 41 companion fabrics. 85 pp. Large folio. First Edition.
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Parallele de Plans des Plus Belles Salles de Spectacles d'Italie et de France, avec Details de Machines Theatrales

By: Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Benjamin Blom, Inc. : 1968

Seller ID: 2729

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth boards with red title to front board and spine. Contains the entire set of plates from 1774 Paris edition (reproduced from a copy in the possession of the Royal Institute of British Architects) and, in an appendix, 16 plates and a portrait of the author from an edition of his collected works, Recueil de plusieurs parties de l'architecture.).; Folio ; [87] p. (chiefly illus., plans) pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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The Permanent Builder [formerly Construction]

By: George L. Knapp, et al.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Construction Publishing Co. / The Permanent Builder Inc. : 1921-1924

Seller ID: 5056

Condition: Good

"The only building magazine devoted exclusively to permanent building materials and methods." 11 issues ranging from May, 1921 to September, 1924 non-consecutively. Seven include a separate blue-print plan supplement corresponding to building on front cover and also lists materials required. Some paper wraps disconnected from staples, 4 total. Black and white illustrations and advertisements throughout. August, 1921 volume has a 4 1/2 inch tear to top left edge of front cover. Some intact spines deteriorating. Small loss to bottom left corner of February, 1922 volume's front cover. Light soili...
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Historic Houses of North Carolina

By: Harriette Kershaw Leiding

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Philadelphia & London, J.B. Lippincott Company : 1921

Seller ID: 4152

Condition: Very Good

Sage cloth with particulars and decorations printed to front cover; markings to front hinge. Particulars printed to spine. Top edge gilt, others deckled. Binding shaken. Previous owner's name inked to front fly. Otherwise a nice clean copy. ; Large 8vo ; xvii, [i], 318 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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History of Indian and Eastern Architecture. Revised and edited, with additions. Two volume set.

By: James Fergusson; James Burgess and R. Phene Spiers

Price: $180.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1910

Seller ID: 4076

Condition: Very Good

Oxblood cloth with decoration and title blind-stamped to front covers. Gilt particulars to spines; wear to spine of vol. I. Top edges gilt. Adhesive remnants to front pastedowns of both volumes; pencil markings to front pastedown of vol. II. Gutters of vol. II cracked. Some foxing to first and last few pages of both volumes, otherwise, a very nice clean set without further markings. ;xxiii, 450; xvi, 521 pages.
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Réimpression de la Nouvelle iconologie historique

By: Jean-Charles Delafosse

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie d'art et d'archéologie : 1911

Seller ID: 5604

Condition: Very Good

Very nice copy with quarter cranberry cloth over marbled boards; title to spine. 13 x 18 inches; 2 pp, 108 plates. First Edition.
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Image for Rob. Mallet-Stevens, Architecture, Furniture, Interior Design A collective work presented by the Delegation a l'Action Artistiquede la Ville de Paris on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Mallet-Stevens published under the direction of Jean-Francois Pinchon

Rob. Mallet-Stevens, Architecture, Furniture, Interior Design A collective work presented by the Delegation a l'Action Artistiquede la Ville de Paris on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Mallet-Stevens published under the direction of Jean-Francois Pinchon

By: Jean-Francois Pinchon (Ed.)

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press : 1990

Seller ID: 6291

Condition: Very Good

Orange cloth boards with dark copper text to front board and spine; pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white illustrations, with some occasionally in color. Spotting to boards and light soiling to dust jacket (see image). 135 pp. 9 x 11 1/4 inches. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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The Ceremonial Entry of Ernst, Archduke of Austria, into Antwerp, June 14, 1594. / Text by Johannes Bochius, Engravings by Pieter van der Borcht, after designs by Marten de Vos. Originally published Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana. 1595.

By: Johannes Bochius

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Benjamin Blom, Inc. : 1970

Seller ID: 2727

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth boards with gilt decor to front board and gilt title to spine. 175 pages to which is added a supplement of plates from The Royal Entry of Albrecht and Isabella into Antwerp,1599. First Published Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, 1602; Folio ; 175 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern, in a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders...Compared with one another.

By: John Evelyn

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London, J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, A. Ward; W Mears, F. Clay, B Motte, and D. Browne : 1733

Seller ID: 1713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

John Evelyn, translator and editor. Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray. A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern, in a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders...Compared with one another. The Three Greek Orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, comprise the First Part of this Treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the Latter...To which is added, An Account of Architects and Architecture, in an Historical and Etymological Explanation of certain Terms particularly affected by Architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of Statu...
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Parallele des Principaux Théâtres Modernes de l'Europe et des Machines Théâtrales Françaises, Allemandes et Anglaises Dessins par Clément Contant. Texte par Joseph de Filippi

By: Joseph de Filippi

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Benjamin Blom, Inc. : 1968

Seller ID: 2728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc.. Very Good. 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to front board and spine. 163 pages plus 134 plates (incl. plans). Reprint of the 1860 edition. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 163 p., 134 plates (incl. plans) pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Paris Moderne, Choix de Decorations Interieures et Exterieures des Edifices Publics et Particuliers de la Capitale.

By: L. Normand (Aine).

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Paris, Normand Aine et al. : 1857

Seller ID: 5642

Condition: Very Good

Quarter morocco over marbled boards. Part IV, Volume I of PARIS MODERNE 80 folio plates. Marbled endpapers. Gilt particulars to spine. Occasional foxing throughout and wear to corners (see image). Two chips to the body of spine; otherwise very good sound & supple copy. Please note this may require additional postage. 12 x 18 in
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Monuments Funeraires Choisis dans les Cimetieres de Paris et des Principales Villes de France.

By: L. Normand Aine

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Paris, Normand Aine : 1847

Seller ID: 8073

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes bound as one with each part containing 72 plates. Quarter black morocco over marbled boards. French text. Marbled endpapers and five raised bands with gilt particulars. Scratch to the paper of the front cover (see image). Stamp to title pages (see images). A clean tight copy without previous owners' names or other markings. Please expect the possibility of additional postage as this is a larger book. First Edition.
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Image for Della architettura di Leon Battista Alberti libri X, della pittura libri III e della statua libro 1. Tradotti in lingua Italiana da Cosimo Bartoli. Nova edizione divisa in tre tomi, da Giacomo Leoni. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books, of painting in three books and of statuary in one book, TOGETHER WITH Some Designs for Buildings both Publick and Private by James Leoni Architect.

Della architettura di Leon Battista Alberti libri X, della pittura libri III e della statua libro 1. Tradotti in lingua Italiana da Cosimo Bartoli. Nova edizione divisa in tre tomi, da Giacomo Leoni. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books, of painting in three books and of statuary in one book, TOGETHER WITH Some Designs for Buildings both Publick and Private by James Leoni Architect.

By: Leon Battista Alberti, James Leoni

Price: $7,700.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Edlin : 1726

Seller ID: 8299

Condition: Very Good

First English edition. Twentieth century cloth over eighteenth century boards sans endpapers. Folio engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart; woodcut initials and tailpieces; parallel text in Italian and English; 102 engraved plates (24 of which are double-page). TOGETHER WITH Leoni's Designs for Buildings both Publick and Private. Folio 11 x 17.75 inches; 29.5 x 45 cm. Christie's, Apr 26, 1989, lot 163. First Edition.
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By Authority. Specimens of Ornamental Art selected from the best models of the Classical Epochs. Illustrated by eighty plates.

By: Lewis Gruner, Descriptive text by Emil Braun

Price: $2,200.00

Publisher: London, Thomas McLean : 1850

Seller ID: 7301

Condition: Very Good

Brown cloth boards with gilt particulars to front board. 80 plates of both chromo-lithographs and lithographs throughout. Occasional foxing although most are bright and unaffected. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown (Sidney Herbert); check marks in pencil to plate numbers on contents page; tear to spine. 26.2 x 20.5 inches. Please expect extra postage as this is an oversized book. First Edition.
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Architektonische Rundschau Skizzenbltter aus allen Gebieten der Baukunst

By: Ludwig Eisenlohr, Carl Weigle

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Verlag Von J. Engelhorn : 1885

Seller ID: 4552

Condition: Good

3 volumes. Unbound
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Category: Architecture